Winter weekends make us lazy. This weekend was no diffrent. After the four long holidays which included lots of potluck parties..So I had no plans to spend lot of time in kitchen yesterday. I wanted to make something real quick. So here it is Tomato rice..which tasted delicious.

Ingredients:

1. Basmathi rice/ any rice – 2 cups (I used Basmathi rice)

2. Tomatoes- 3-4

3. Onions – 1

4.Curry leaves – 4

5. Mutter / peas- 1 small cup

6. Coriander – to garnish

7.Turmeric – 1/2 tbs

For seasoning:

1. Mustard seeds – 1 tbs

2. Shah jeera – 1 tbs

3. Cardamon – 1

4. Biryani flower – 1 (optional)

5. ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp (optional)

Method:

1. Boil the rice by adding 1 tbs salt and also turmeric. ( So that they mix well )

Katte Pongali is my husband’s favorite dish. We make it very often during festivals as nivadyam. Yesterday for no special reason we wanted to make katte pongali. Without pondering much we made it. It came out very well. We enjoyed ours with groundnut chutney and mukkala pulusu. So here is the recipe.

2. When onions turn golden brown add all the chopped vegetables. (* add just a pinch of salt and cover the pan with a lid*).

3. When the vegetables are 80% done. Turn the stove off.

4. Take a big pan, take half of the cooked vegetables and spread as a layer, and now on top of it add another layer of cooked rice, repeat this until you are done with both rice and vegetables.

5. Now mix a pinch of saffron color in water and sprinkle it on the layer of rice and vegetables.

We are almost done!

6. Now you have to cook this on stove for another 10 minutes or you can keep it in oven at 300 degrees for about 15 minutes. (* when you cook on stove make sure you put this pan in another big pan with water as you don’t burn the bottom *)